Friday 28 August 2015

[Maine-birds] Additional Highlights and Shorebird High Counts This Week, 8/22-28

Hi all,
Some more observations of note for me in the past seven days included:

- 1 Wilson's Warbler and 14+ Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Old Town House Park, North Yarmouth, 8/22 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk Group).
- 1 Cape May Warbler, Poplar Hut of Maine Huts & Trails, Carrabassett Valley, 8/23 (with tour group).
- 1 Willet, foraging at summit of (mossberry?) of SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN, 8/23 (with Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist).
- 1 presumed TRICOLORED HERON x SNOWY EGRET HYBRID ("Splotchy"), Rte 1/9 salt pannes, Scarborough Marsh, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
- 1 drake White-winged Scoter, Biddeford Pool Beach, Biddeford, 8/25 (with Jeannette).

And my shorebirds high counts over the past week were as follows (no Eastern Road Trail visit):
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER: 1 ad, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Black-bellied Plover: 160, Pine Point, Scarborough, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Semipalmated Plover: 350, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Killdeer: 3, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER: 5, Pine Point, 8/11 (with Jeannette).
Greater Yellowlegs: 12, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 8/25 (with Jeannette).
Lesser Yellowlegs: 38, Eastern Road Trail, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
"Eastern" Willet: 8 juvs, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
"WESTERN" WILLET: 1 juv. (FOY), Pine Point, 8/24 (with Fyn Kind, Gary Roberts, and Jeannette).
Solitary Sandpiper: 4, Carrabassett Valley Snowfluent Ponds, 8/23 (with Poplar Hut Tour group).
Spotted Sandpiper: 5, Carrabassett Valley Snowfluent Ponds, 8/23 (with Poplar Hut Tour group).
Whimbrel: 8, Wells Harbor, 8/27.
Ruddy Turnstone: 8, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Sanderling: 40, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/25 (with Jeannette).
Semipalmated Sandpiper: 1000, Biddeford Pool Beach, 8/25 (with Jeannette)..
Least Sandpiper: 75 mostly juv, Eastern Road Trail, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
White-rumped Sandpiper: 80-100 adults, Eastern Road Trail, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER: 2 juveniles, Popham Beach State Park, Phippsburg, 8/28 (with Serena Doose. Photos at link below).
Pectoral Sandpiper: 6, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
STILT SANDPIPER: 4 ads, Eastern Road Trail, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Short-billed Dowitcher: 19 juveniles, Pine Point, 8/24 (with Jeannette).
Wilson's Snipe: 1, Carrabassett Valley Snowfluent Ponds, 8/23 (with Poplar Hut Tour group).

I expanded upon this shorebird list a little and included some of Jeannette's photos from the week on my blog, here:

-Derek
 
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 Derek and Jeannette Lovitch
 Freeport Wild Bird Supply
 541 Route One, Suite 10
 Freeport, ME 04032
 207-865-6000
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